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Governing
A growing number of American workers are abandoning their commutes.
The latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau published last week show that approximately 8 million workers primarily work from home. That makes telework now second behind only driving as the most common means of getting to work, exceeding public transportation for the first time.
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Forbes
The last decade has seen an explosion in technologies with tremendous potential impact on a business. From internet-connected devices to the algorithms that can make sense of the mountains of data those devices produce, there’s never been a more exciting, compelling and confusing time to invest in innovation.
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Route Fifty
Rush hour isn’t a good time for work to get started at a construction site on Denver’s bustling Santa Fe Drive, but it happened recently—increasing traffic congestion and reducing air quality with so many vehicles idling.
Only this time the city’s Traffic Operations Center, or TOC, was quickly made aware of the issue thanks to its recently enabled situational awareness dashboard.
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Forbes
Wildfires in the U.S. have become more common and catastrophic than ever before. Citizens, local governments and the $2.2 trillion property and casualty insurance industry continue to be caught by surprise due to the severity and frequency of these events.
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Future Structure
Seattle would boost its spending on streets, sidewalks and buses by nearly $130 million next year under Mayor Jenny Durkan’s new proposed budget.
That’s more than a 25 percent increase over this year as the city rebuilds its aging roadways and tries to manage increasing traffic congestion.
The two-year budget, released Monday, also projects an additional $70 million in transportation spending for 2020, on top of what is proposed for next year.
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Government Technology
In 1998, Google began humbly, formally incorporated in a Menlo Park garage, providing search results from a server housed in Lego bricks. It had a straightforward goal: make the poorly indexed World Wide Web accessible to humans. Its success was based on an algorithm that analyzed the linking structure of the internet itself to evaluate what web pages are most reputable and useful.
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Route Fifty
More than 11,000 homes in the Carolinas experienced storm surge flooding during Hurricane Florence as a result of rising sea levels over the past five decades, according to data scientists with First Street Foundation, a national sea-level research nonprofit.
The hurricane’s storm surge “impacted over 51,000 homes by pushing water over 25 percent or more of each property,” the analysis says.
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WIRED
Helicopters got to Wilmington, North Carolina, after a day of isolation; Hurricane Florence made landfall there, and the city, with one foot in the Atlantic and the other in the Cape Fear River, soon became an island. Its main roads underwater, Wilmington went without help until boats and choppers reached it with medical supplies, water and food.
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